Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

NexGen Cloud, the leading AI infrastructure-as-a-service provider, today announced the integration of object storage into its ...

In my last column, we looked at the fundamentals of object storage as it applies to the media industry and as applicable to archiving. Object stores have become a principle solution for long-term data ...

Object storage, data lakes, and Edge computing will play a big part in shaping the future of unstructured data storage and AI The data deluge is here, and according to IDC, 80 percent of it is ...

Mark Hurd, in his keynote at the 2016 Oracle Open World Conference, made a very cogent explanation of the factors that are driving the movement of enterprise applications and resources to the cloud.

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...

With "Object Storage", the internet service provider Hetzner is now offering object storage as part of its product portfolio. The storage solution is compatible with Amazon S3 and is designed to offer ...